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Curious if anyone has caught this book yet? “The Richest Man in Town” by W Randall Jones. I’ve read half of it so far and let me tell you it is well worth it. Would like to hear what everyone else thought of it?

I can’t agree enough Mei. Some other great reading on the entrepreneurial advantages of American culture can be found in “The Entrepreneurial Imperative,” by Carl Schramm, President of the Kauffman Foundation. Check it out at:

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Hi. I think it’s important not only to set goals but to set realistic ones. Pace yourself. Don’t expect too much or bite off more than you can chew. Choose goals you know you can accomplish and perhaps just a few beyond your reach, but be realistic about the results.

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[…] be difficult to raise capital or secure loans, forcing you to bootstrap. That means that avoiding classic entrepreneur mistakes and focusing on the truly important things in your business. To borrow from Guy Kawasaki, this […]

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Gregg,
Insightful rendition of A New Earth. I like that you mention the goal of becoming “a wealthy entreprenuer” as perhaps a roadblock to true happiness, as depicted by Eckhart Tolle.
But the being of doing, I assume, can be quite peaceful and non-ego related since Tolle himself is what one might call a very successful author, all by his own doing!
Best,
Meghan Mullan
yoga instructor

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Before you get too hot on Ning, you better check out Ringside Networks. The guys behind this company were some of the originals at JBoss and Redhat. It is open source, so look for it to be a category killer (like http://www.processmaker.com)

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How inspiring Randy Pausch is! If you liked “The Last Lecture”, another fantastic memoir I just read and highly recommend is “My Stroke of Insight” by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Her TEDTalk video (ted.com) has been seen as many times as The Last Lecture I think, and Oprah did 4 shows on her book, so there are a lot of similarities. In My Stroke of Insight, there’s a happy ending though. It’s an incredible story! I hear they’re making it into a movie.

Thurman - thanks very much for the heads up on the piece by Dr. Bolte. She is a very engrossing speaker - grounding her background as a brain scientist into a real-world experience of having a stroke and the resulting consequences - including the release of creative energy in the right side of her brain. Fascinating! Thanks also for turning us onto Ted.com - had never been turned onto it. Great resource. Please keep the comments coming!

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Thanks for the ‘executive’ summary of Ben Casnocha’s recent post. I have multi-tiered plan (financial, intellectual, health, etc.) to live to 100; however, always looking to augment my thinking on the methodologies.